Conversion Agent - EDI Parser Problem

Hi Experts,
We are writing a parser for EDI message type 850.
When we are giving Repeating Group and Marker "ST", it is taking more fields also, having this value "ST", which are in other Segments other then ST.
and reading that ST fields as a segment,
the output data is not correct due to this problem,
Please help,
Regards,
Study SAP

Hi VJ,
thanks for your reply,
We are writing this Parser at Conversion Agent for EDI 850 & 856, X12 Version 4030.
The example file for the problem is here :
ST/856/00001~
BSN/00/013721/20070806/1808/0001~
HL/1//S~
TD1/CTN25/17////G/198/LB~
TD5//2/HRMN/M/HERMANN TRUCKIN~
REF/BM/67450800000020664~
REF/CN/125173569~
REF/PUA/125173569~
PER/IC/dan/EM/[email protected]~
DTM/011/20070806/1807~
N1/ST//92/93922~
ST is a segment, when we are going to give this as Marker in Repeating Group, it is picking ST of N1 Segment also.
'/' is seperator for fields and '~' is seperator for lines.
Regards,
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